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Chelsea E Manning
Chelsea E Manning is a United States Army intelligence analyst. She writes for the Guardian in her personal, civil capacity. Her opinions do not represent those of the US Disciplinary Barracks, the US Army, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense or any other government department, branch or agency of the United States.
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In Chelsea Manning’s first column since her commutation, she writes that Barack Obama’s legacy is a warning against not being bold enough
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Despite what they say, suffrage isn’t universal. If you’re privileged enough to be able to vote, don’t waste the opportunity that not everyone is afforded
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It’s absurd that the military has finally agreed to treatment while preparing to discipline me for the desperation I felt earlier this year
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I’d long known I was a woman. But it was the height of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’, so I hid my true self. Then, one day on leave, I decided enough was enough
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The new policy says trans people should be ‘stable in their gender ... as certified by a doctor’. That’s not good enough. We’re the ones who know our gender best
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As we mourn the shooting victims, it’s imperative that we remember the response can be more dangerous than the attack
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I spent about nine months in an isolated cell behind a one-way mirror. It was cruel, degrading and inhumane
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The National Insider Threat Task Force subjects officials to surveillance and fear, and uses me as an example. Those with legitimate concerns should be empowered to speak out
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The chasm between me and the outside world feels like it’s getting wider and wider, and all I can do is let it happen
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Some want to exploit the Paris attacks in order to justify seizures of power to meet their own political ends. We should not let that happen
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Intelligence agencies will always seek to collect more data. But the courts that oversee them must be as concerned about due process as they are with secrets
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Lifting the ban on trans service members would be a hollow victory if more anti-discrimination measures are not put in place
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Who in our community will be left to push for full equality for all transgender and queer people, now that this one fight has been won?
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It can be difficult, sometimes, to make sense of all the things that have happened to me in the last five years
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The American public needs more access to what the government is doing in its name. That requires increasing freedom of information and transparency
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Even the most junior level intelligence officers know that torture is both unethical and illegal. So why didn’t our political leaders?
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Chelsea E Manning: We are told, by the legal system and the military, that we don’t belong. It’s time for trans people like me to tell the world something different: we exist
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Chelsea E Manning: Degrade and destroy? The west should try to disrupt the canny militants into self-destruction, because bombs will only backfire
Chelsea Manning column Chelsea Manning: to those who kept me alive all these years, thank you